Kansas governor orders Planned Parenthood funding cut

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has ordered state officials to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood and its affiliates through the state Medicaid program, a move the organization said on Wednesday it would challenge in court.

Brownback, a Republican, said in his state of the state address on Tuesday that he would direct the state health secretary to ensure that no taxpayer money go to Planned Parenthood, which he said trafficked in baby body parts.

"No longer will we send the money of hard-working Kansans to fund an industry that disrespects life and violates the moral conscience of our people," Brownback said in a statement.

The governor's statement was an apparent reference to videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group that activists said showed that Planned Parenthood officials in some states had discussed the sale of aborted fetal tissue.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-plannedparenthood-idUSKCN0US02K20160114

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Politics | Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:33pm EST

[emulatorloo]

1. Can't Reuters man up and call the videos what they are? >>>>Fake videos.

[Eugene]

2. That part starts in paragraph five. I left it off due to copyright rules. nt

[emulatorloo]

4. Good to know!

[Roland99]

3. Yeah, because his awesome decisions have turned Kansas into an economic oasis!!

Oh wait....

[Squinch]

5. Wait...what? Is he in a snit about the endorsement too?

[passiveporcupine]

6. I sure wish this guy would suddenly

find himself pregnant.

With triplets.

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. Fucking Johnny-come-lately-

Scutt Wanker was on this MONTHS ago.

[Skittles]

8. it is sad that people as stupid as this man have any power

[pennylane100]

9. What is even more sad,

the people he screws over gave him that power.